When you listen to me, you listen to your Self || Acharya Prashant (2014)
Question: These days I feel like running away from Advait. I feel that I am not going to gain anything here. But, at the same time I find myself pulled here yet again. I know what you are saying is true and that you mean well for me, but I am not able to trust you. I have never really been able to trust anyone. Why is this happening to me?
Speaker: Neither do you come here to me, neither are you running away from me. I am inconsequential, I do not matter. It is because you are ‘you’, so you think of me as some person who says a few things, and to whom you come.
Who is it that you come to? Why do you feel the urge to come? And who is it within you that resists when you want to come? Both are you. I have nothing to do with either of them. You are two, you are split. There are two parts of you. You come here to one particular part, and the other part resists. You don’t come to me, you come here to your own self, I don’t matter. It’s not me that you are listening to.
When you are sitting in front of me, you are listening to the same Truth that is your own essence and that is why you are so helpless in coming here. You will have to come. And when I say ‘here’, I do not mean this physical location. I mean the Truth.
Tomorrow you may stop coming to this physical location but how will you stop the urge to know the truth that arises within you? How will you stop it? It is you, it is your essence. Will you be able to get rid of yourself? How will you run away from yourself? How will you deny yourself? How will you violate yourself? Wherever you are, you can leave everything behind. But how can you leave the ‘Self’ behind?
